I am a Linux noobie and have only used Mint for around six months now. While I have definitely learned a lot, I don’t have the time to always be doing crazy power user stuff and just want something that works out of the box. While I love Mint, I want to try out other decently easy to use distros as well, specifically not based on Ubuntu, so no Pop OS. Is Manjaro a possibly good distro for me to check out?

  • @s20@lemmy.ml
    13•1 year ago

    I’m not a fan for a few reasons, but they’re all on my end.

    I will say, though, that if you “don’t have time to always be doing crazy power user stuff,” an Arch based distro might not be what you’re looking for. This is especially true of an Arch based distro that strays pretty far from the core distribution.

    My suggestion would be to try Fedora or OpenSuse Tumbleweed instead. I’m a big Fedora fan, and it’s honestly great - much better than Ubuntu IMHO. It’s also easy to maintain and less prone to user-induced breakage than Arch distros.

    If you’re looking for something even more different, but still not prone to breakage, then you might try looking into an immutable distro. Silverblue, OpenSuse Aeon, blendOS, or VanillaOS are all nice places to start looking.